After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs
very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for
the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us
mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer
than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways
to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered
mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an
article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with
a variety of examples.
It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a
struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though
none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that
contains characters designed this way.
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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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Suzanne,
I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my
explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more
direct.
If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them.
--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm
"LindaC" wrote in message
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I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just
don't get it.
"Greg Maxey" wrote:
You can create them easily enough. See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm
After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText.
On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote:
I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it
(differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line
through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks.